Today this would be called Flash Fiction. In 1979 it was a "short-short" story. It was first published in the Winter, 1979, issue of Unearth Magazine (Volume 2, Number 4).
This is a story of the first encounter between two intelligent species. I've tried to present an unusual viewpoint and challenge some preconceptions. Mostly, I hope you enjoy it.

Triorion: Awakening finds five-year-old triplets Jetta, Jaeia, and Jahx struggling to survive on a harsh alien planet under the thumb of their brutal owner. When the Dominion discovers their extraordinary telepathic talents, they are coerced into military service.

In Book 2 of the In Her Name: Redemption trilogy, Reza Gard is once again a stranger in a strange land in the Confederation. He is brought to Earth, where he is reunited with Nicole Carré. But there are dark forces at work in the Confederation, and Reza is a pawn in a power struggle that leads him to Erlang. A heartbreaking reunion awaits in a battle where he must choose between love and honor...

The Humals. Humanoid Aliens. They dominated the spiral arm millennia ago then vanished without trace. Man had found traces of their presence, reverse-engineered their technology and speculated endlessly about their demise. But no one really knew what had happened. No one knew why they had disappeared or why so few traces of them remained...

Nothing sane travels the starway. Today it brings disaster.
In the far future, humanity settles the stars, bioengineering its descendants to survive in a harsh universe. This is the second book in the science fiction series, The Backworlds. A space opera adventure.
Revenge is on Craze’s mind. He chews on it everyday along with the relentless dust on Pardeep Station.

Waking up on a strange ship, 21 year old Cordass Pell learns that he is on his way to serve a life sentence on the penal planet of Demerl. But before the transport arrives, the ship is hijacked by pirates and Pell and the other prisoners are sold as slaves to a sadistic owner. The trouble is that he can’t remember anything about his life before waking up. And someone keeps trying to kill him.

After a merciless enemy boards her cargo hauler, Captain Kasha Eaves is forced to make one of the most difficult decisions of her life - she withdraws her distress call.
“DCCS Memories of Hel to any vessel within range – this ship is to be considered hostile. Repeat – the Memories of Hel is hostile. Destroy on sight.”
However, her crew's fight for survival and freedom has barely begun.

In spite of being regarded by her race as a misfit and a rogue, Doella is asked to secretly save her home planet from powerful foes once more. While doing so she receives another gift that has been waiting for her for aeons, guarded by a hidden horror. In saving Varan again, she loses that which she loves most. But she must still fulfil her promise to discover what has happened to the Hyclos.

A year ago, Magnius Zoleki struggled with a life of boredom and an unhappy marriage. These days, he'd take those problems in a heartbeat. If the looming war with the Xuranians doesn't tear apart what remains of his sanity, Amii Martin will. Book 2

More than a century ago, war hero Julius Verndock helped end a galactic war with Majesty—the first living machine.
Today in 2213, he and his partner Laina command a pirate ship, and despite their desire to retire from the pirate life, are drawn into another galactic conflict where they must once again save humanity, but this time with help from Chorus—Majesty's secret offspring...

More than a century ago, war hero Julius Verndock helped end a galactic war with Majesty—the first living machine. Today in 2213, he and his partner Laina command a pirate ship, and despite their desire to retire from the pirate life, are drawn into another galactic conflict where they must once again save humanity, but this time with help from Chorus—Majesty's secret offspring...

A sci-fi space opera with a dash of romance, action, and mystery, A Plain Jane follows Jane as she travels the galaxy desperately trying to find out who she is, where she's from, and what she's really capable of.

Alice is part of the crew and it's time for her first mission with the Commander. Sent to one of the worst slums of the Rim, the two have to track down a wanted Union traitor.
That's the easy part though. The hard part comes when Alice makes a decision that will change her life.
Alice is going to stop running. But will those after her stop their chase?

Alice has found herself in trouble. The Aurora Project are suspicious of her, and John believes them. She now has to make a decision. Stay or go? To make matters worse, the Pegasus has just picked up a mysterious planet on long-range scanners, one that fills Alice with fear just to look upon it.

* See the front of the book for your chance to be a charcter in an upcoming novel. * One minute, Kim McLean was wondering what a medieval hot dog might have been filled with, and the next she was beating aliens over the head with a mace. And then the day starts to get really strange? Now it's up to her alone to end this war. Well, just her, an elf, a crazy dwarf and a Wonderbra.

When John Bandicut encounters an alien intelligence on Neptune's moon Triton, his life changes irrevocably. Urged by the alien quarx now sharing his mind, he accepts an audacious mission—to steal a ship and hurtle across the solar system in a desperate bid for Earth's survival. Book 1 of The Chaos Chronicles, by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End—with a new Afterword by the author.

The second in a series of short stories about the I.S.S. Fenghuang, the last faster-than-light starship in the galaxy. In this volume, Governor Caitlin Adair struggles with her place among the crew while they investigate an isolated solar mining platform.

The last thing reporter Steve Gortney expects is pirates raiding the strange space-elevator on the backworld of Vorstogen. While he's thrilled for the exclusive on a pirate raid-in-progress, he soon finds his own life in danger from a secret the pirates are willing to kill to keep hidden. Meanwhile, the space-elevator has a few secrets of its own... A science fiction novelette by J.A. Marlow.

This second Irredente novel follows the separate trajectories of the boy Henryk Burgred and the reactionary cleric Hersey through 750 pages of adventure, peril, revelation, and redemption until the lives of many individuals converge upon a single, mysterious point: the doomed planet Innisfree.